Meteor Modem huawei 173 €9

Solaris10

Meteor.ie Refurbished E173 Broadband Stick €9

plus €20 cashback from http://www.fatcheese.ie



https://store.meteor.ie/broadband

kdouglas

Thanks for that, always handy to have one of these lying about

toby2111

Anyone use one of these around Blackrock area in Louth?Have an o2 dongle but its kinda hit and miss.Might give meteor a go to see how it compares.

Kevin!

do these come locked does anyone know?

danjo-xx

Kevin! wrote: »

do these come locked does anyone know?

think you can be sure of that.

dave oc

Will the fatcheese offer mean you get €11 back if you buy one of the refurb modems? There was a similar thing at Christmas with Three and bethrifty.ie, I got that one and my cash back offer is still 'awaiting approval'

Eoinite

I missed out on the 3 offer so will definitely go for this one. As kdouglas says it's handy to have around especially if it gives you free wifi in certain areas.

Haven't had any problems getting cashback with fatcheese so far and I've now been paid over €100 from them. This offer was on their newsletter yesterday.

paddyp

Cheers, just ordered one.

red_fox

Nice one. I just joined fatcheese for this, I see that they have referrals, and one of the options is that the person referred gets €1 extra on their first transaction worth over €1 and the person referring gets nothing.

http://www.fatcheese.ie/?referrer=30016367&method=give

I don't get anthing out of this, I dislike referral spam but this seems ok to me. If this is not ok then please remove with my apologies.

5500

Is that €9 one PAYG or contract?

Fresh Pots

eireal wrote: »

Is that €9 one PAYG or contract?

PAYG

dabbler2004

Does anyone know if this can be easily unlocked online?

Ghost Train

dabbler2004 wrote: »

Does anyone know if this can be easily unlocked online?

think there was a free way to do it, posted in the 3 thread a month or two back

edit: here it is
worked for me
http://www.ruchirablog.com/guide-unlock-huawei-hsdpa-modem-free/

danjo-xx

Dave6195 wrote: »

Will the fatcheese offer mean you get €11 back if you buy one of the refurb modems? There was a similar thing at Christmas with Three and bethrifty.ie, I got that one and my cash back offer is still 'awaiting approval'

Me dongle is on the way and me €20 pending, my first bit of business with the great Fatcheese.:)

thanks again op.

bazwaldo

If I get one of these and unlock it, can I stick my vodafone PAYG sim card from my phone into it and paying the 99c per day get broadband? Or is it a separate sim card for broadband use?

Do-more

bazwaldo wrote: »

If I get one of these and unlock it, can I stick my vodafone PAYG sim card from my phone into it and paying the 99c per day get broadband? Or is it a separate sim card for broadband use?

Well I do that with my 3 phone sim without any problem, but I don't know whether Voda allows it,

Ghost Train

I'm still waiting on bethrifty.ie cash-back from november/december, vodafone & 3Mobile

Seriously slow system

paddyp

Got mine today, works grand on windows xp but not working on windows 7 - com port shows up eventually but no virtual cd. Does anyone know if the firmware from the e173u-1 will go into this e173u-2?

kc66

I have Meteor Bill pay lite with 250mb data add on. If I get this do I just put my sim into it and use my 250mb?

paddyp

Updated the firmware, no difference, rebooted to ubuntu and of course it all works perfectly. God bless ubuntu it is also the only operating system that plays well with my hp bluetooth module.

danjo-xx

kc66 wrote: »

I have Meteor Bill pay lite with 250mb data add on. If I get this do I just put my sim into it and use my 250mb?

this can only be used on PAYG, (Pay As You Go.)

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iPhone.

Got one delivered today, thanks OP.

Unlocked it and seems to work fine with the O2 sim from my phone

Handy as a backup as I don't need a frequent use one.

suppafly

been looking to get one of these things for a while. What the fatcheese reward money it makes it a great deal as your getting it for free basically and and €10. How long do fatcheese normally take to award the cashback?

Solaris10

got mine, unlocked it , supports voice call too, i have tested with vodafone sim.....

Fresh Pots

Solaris10 wrote: »

got mine, unlocked it , supports voice call too, i have tested with vodafone sim.....

How do you unlock it?

bazwaldo

TheTechGuy wrote: »

How do you unlock it?

Theres a link on an earlier post.

Solaris10, was the vodafone sim you tried a phone sim?

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bazwaldo wrote: »

Theres a link on an earlier post.

Solaris10, was the vodafone sim you tried a phone sim?

Thanks, should have read the thread first!

Solaris10

i used mobile sim,

Yggr of Asgard

I wonder if fatcheese is actualy going to get 20€ from meteor for this or if they just are going to deny the cashback on this.

Even if Meteor is pumping up it's book by getting loads of active mobile broadband paygo customers selling something for 9€ (with no shipping cost) and than paying 20€ as cashback seams too good to be true.

Never the less, as refurbished E173 (which does HSDPA 7.2MBps never the less) to get the food in the door for the free Wifi on Meteor is just a too good bargain to pass on.

So I buy and even if I don't get cashback I still made a good bargain, so thanks OP.

Charlie Haughy

Can anyone tell me where to enter the code on fatcheese which you get from meteor in the confirmation order email ?

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Charlie Haughy wrote: »

Can anyone tell me where to enter the code on fatcheese which you get from meteor in the confirmation order email ?

You don't need to enter any code. You just need to click the get cashback button to bring you to the meteor website, then fatcheese knows you've bought from them and will credit your account with the €20. It may take a few minutes to appear.